An Early 19thC French or Spanish School Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Lady c.1830 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage with a hinged lid

with a hinged lid

According to De La Croix and Tansey neoclassicism “embraced the idea of a changeless generality that supposedly transcends the accidents of time”

One picture also has the trade label for ‘Braithwaites Repository of Arts

and on the day of departure the railway stations were packed

the square varnished oak carcass with plinth cornice and six open slanted slats survives from the turn of the nineteenth century

An Early 19thC French or Spanish School Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Lady c.1830 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage with a hinged lidOrigin: Spanish or French Period: Early 19thC Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1830 Height: 25. 5 Width: 21. 25 Depth: 0. 75 The well depicted three quarter length portrait of a lady; painted in oils on canvas:, the sitter wearing a laced dress, with a pretty and amicable face and rose tinted cheeks, wearing earrings and with her hair tied very much in the style of the period, the whole on a viridian green coloured ground, presented unframed, and